10 days on
Today is 10 days since the SMH half. The inflammation and localised pain on the edge of the tibia has settled down. That's the good news. The bad news is that I have pain in the bone just below the knee. There is no real pain when the bone is pressed, yet it hurts when I put weight on it. On the Gronk's Pain Scale (TM) where 0/10 is well zero pain and 10/10 is being eaten alive by a bear, I'd say that walking is a 4/10. Walking down a slope and traversing up and down stairs it increases to a 6/10 and I need to limp to compensate.
Not sure what to do now. Do I go straight to my GP and organise a x-ray ? Well from what I have read stress fractures are hard to pick up in conventional x-rays and bone scans are the go. Bone scans however sound pricey as do sports GPs and I am wary of spending a slab of the family's cash for the doc to tell me basically what I already know - 12 weeks of no weight bearing excercise and then start a return from injury program.
Decisions, decisions.
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Hope it isn't the stressie mate. I can lend you a sports doc if you need one but as you know he will want the bone scan to look at.
That's a tough one. I think I'd prefer to know, because it might not be a stress fracture, but something less and that would be good news. Either way though, I suspect you're right about the treatment.
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I would want to know for sure but as you say, the treatment is pretty much the same anyway. Just the length of time not running varies.
You could treat it like a stressie if you don't want to fork out $500+
If you get a bone scan the Doc should be able to tell you how serious it is (what grade). You could be back to normal running quicker if it's not serious.
Otherwise, just have the 6 weeks of water running etc. Plenty of time until C2S.
I echo what Ewen said - it's better to be cautious if you don't want to fork out the $$$ to find out what's going on. Even if you do minimal running between now and C2S knowing you, you'll still run it in bloody good time ;-)
You need to look after your legs!
I really hope it's not a stressie and you can recover quickly - just be careful
I'd be looking up Superflake's sports doc. Re the $$$, we drag out butts to work every day, might as well spend some of our hard earned on things like getting the right diagnosis and course of treatment.
sounds a bit like the pain below my kneee after 2005 Six foot.
Plu
I know a few people who can help !!! Happy to organize a few appointments for you if you need to see some one quickly
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